ABSTRACT
To ascertain the merits of different phonetic
syllabification algorithms, their performance was compared and contrasted both
against each other, using lexical analysis, and against human syllable boundary
placement, using first or second syllable repetition of a bi-syllable non-word.
Perception results show that second syllable repetition showed far greater consistency
than that of the first suggesting that the former condition is a more accurate
measure of boundary placement. Comparison of human and algorithm syllable
boundary placement showed high categorial accuracy for the Dell and Laporte
algorithms whilst suggesting the use of multiple concurrent algorithms to produce
a measure of confidence for each syllable boundary judgement.